CHAPTER 1

Malibu.

I still can't believe live in Malibu, even though I have lived her all my life, with my sisters Sienna and Paige, who had gone off to collage and my parents. I still can't get enough of the view, because I still get rendered speechless whenever I see it.

But I think the biggest surprise of all is that I'm a vampire and so are the rest of my family and we feed off of humans so we can live. We can also change our appearances so we can blend in with humans, but we don't live forever and kill humans, like you see in movies and TV shows, or turn into bats like you hear in myths.

We are a different kind of vampire, we can walk in sunlight without getting burnt, and we can change our physical appearance, as in we can look inhumanly beautiful or we can tone down our appearance to look more human. I was interrupted from my thoughts by Sienna.

'Bella are you coming were going to be late for school.'she yelled up the stairs

'I'll be right there.' I told her

I went to my wardrobe and looked for something to wear, in five seconds I had decided to wear skinny jeans, and a black tank top with black high heels. I quickly stripped off the towel I had put on after I had a shower, and got dressed and brushed my long black hair and put on some mascara and headed down stairs only to run into Sienna, who was standing right outside her door.

'What are you doing standing there, sis.' I asked her

'I was just coming up to see what was taking you so long, I mean you told me you would be right down and then you end up spending about 10 minutes in there getting ready.' she answered

'Yeah, well I'm here now, so are we going now.' I asked her

'Yeah we can because Brad's waiting out for me and he wants us to meet his cousin that just moved here from Texas and has decided to live here, not that he had a choice, because his parents died.'

'what do you mean 'just died' from what.'

'They got shot through the heart with a crossbow blot.'

I looked at my like she had just gone crazy, and thought poor guy, what a way to lose your parents, who would do that sort of thing.

'Why would someone do that sort of thing, to get rid of someone.'

'I don't know Bella, but Brad says he's pretty broken up about, I feel like we know him from somewhere, but where.'

'What's his name.'

'Jasper.'

I instantly stopped breathing and started to stare off into space, while memories of us as kids, hanging out with Jasper and Brad came flooding back. But only on of those memories decided to came to the front of my head. And this memory was the best of all of them. Why? Because that was the day I realized I loved him as a big brother. but it was also a bad day because I broke his heart.

Flashback

I was sitting in my living room with Jasper, and was playing with my hand while he played with my hair to try and calm me down after he told me that he was going to move back to Texas with his mum and dad tomorrow morning, and when I say tomorrow morning I mean at 12am tomorrow and no sooner.

'But Jasper why do you have to go.' I asked him.

'Because they want me to come and live with them, Bella,' he told me, while looking at the floor.

'I'm going to miss you,' I told him while I added in my head 'I love you, Jasper always have always will.'

His eyes snapped up to meet mine, as if he heard me say those word.

'What did you say,' he asked me.

'I said I will miss you,' I told him.

'No after that.'

'I didn't say anything.'

'Yes you did, you said 'I love you Jasper always have always will' I heard it.'

'I...d..didn't s..say that.' I told him, while trying to remember if I had said it out loud.

'If you didn't say it, I have no reason to stay then, do I?' he said, he started to get up off the lounge, but before he could stand up completely, I grabbed his wrist and made him sit back down on the lounge. I looked into his beautiful green eyes wondering if I should tell him how I feel about him and how long I've been feeling this way about him for. I took a deep breath and decided to tell him, but just was about to speak, he spoke.

'What's wrong, bell.'

'Jasper I have to tell you something,' I paused to take a deep breath and then continued. 'What you heard me say before is true, I do love but I only you as a brother and I have loved you that way ever since we kids, I just didn't know how to tell you.'

As soon as the word left my mouth I looked down at the floor and started counting the patterns in the carpet so I couldn't see his expression, and also to let the words sink in. We sat there in silence for a moment until Jasper let out shaky breath and put his hand under my chin and lifted my head so I was looking into his eyes, and the emotion that was in them sent a wave of shock through my body.

Hurt shone in his eyes, as well as admiration, respect and disbelief.

'Well I guess I don't have any reason to stay.' He said.

'But you do have a reason to stay.'

'It's to late now, Bella I told my parent that I was coming, but if you had told me earlier, I could of told them I was staying here,' he told me.

'Don't go, Jasper please don't go, I need you.'I paused and then added. 'Your like a big brother to me.'

'I promise we will stay in touch,' he said.

'You promise,' I asked him.

'Yes, I'll call you everyday.' He told me, as he leaned in and kissed my forehead and pulled me to him for a hug. Ten seconds later I heard someone clear their throat, behind me.

I looked up to see my mother smiling down at us 'Jasper you have to go now, otherwise you will miss your flight.' my mother told him.

I turned back to Jasper to see the hurt that I was feeling reflected in his eyes 'We'll stay in touch, you have to go,' I told him, while wishing that he didn't.

He kissed me on the forehead one last time, before he walked out the door, and that was the last time I saw him.

End Of Flashback

'Bella, Bella, snap out of it.'

I blinked a few times and then looked at my sister.

'Where did you go, you've standing like that for five minutes,' she asked me.

'What.'

'Nothing let just go meet Jasper alright.'

'OK.'

We walked over to Brad, where he and Jasper were leaning up against Brad's car and talking away, but as soon as Jasper saw me, he stopped talking to him and walked over to me, I felt my heartbeat start to race in my chest as he strode toward me, the memory of our last time together still in my thoughts.

'Hi Bella, nice to see you again,' he said as he came to a stand still in front of me.

'Hi Jasper long time no see,' I replied.

We stood there awkwardly for a moment before Sienna walked up to us and stood beside me as whispered in my ear.

'Well go hug him already, I know you think of him as a brother, because I do to and so does Brad.'

While was walking over to Jasper I saw Brad whispering in his ear like Sienna had done to me, as soon as Brad was finished whispering in his ear he started to walk towards me as well as hold his arms out, so I can jump into them.

That was the only invitation I needed.

I ran the rest off the way towards him and jumped into his arms, he spun me around a few times before stopping and kissing me on the forehead.

'I missed you, bro.'

'I missed you too, sis.'

We heard someone clear their throat from behind us and we turned towards them.